He's in the Retired Pool. If you open up players.dbf and search for him, you'll find that his TEAM is set to 32. Change it to 50 (the Free Agents), close DB Commander, re-load the roster in game and he'll be available to be signed.

I know a fair few people are still waiting on the 2012/2013 season roster updates for NBA Live 2005, NBA Live 06, NBA Live 07 and NBA Live 08, so I wanted to give you all a quick status update. I had hoped to get the rosters out by the end of November, however that unfortunately proved to be unfeasible as a myriad of other things ultimately got in the way. I am therefore officially pushing them back at least a couple of weeks, however I am still working on them and intend to release them as soon as I possibly can.

To give you an idea of the current status, there are still players to create and some ratings I’d like to update, however all players who were in the league last season are on their correct teams, years pro have been updated and everyone who wasn’t a free agent this past offseason has up to date contract information. I’ll continue to get everything up to date in that regard in between my other responsibilities, however I do need help with current art updates. You can find a list of currently required art updates here in the Forum; please note I also need some help in converting jerseys for use with NBA Live 2005 and NBA Live 06, so if you can lend a hand there, that would also be appreciated.

Thank you once again for your continued patience and understanding. I hate to have to delay the rosters further but I do have matters that are more important and therefore must take precedent. A few people have gotten a bit antsy and I do appreciate your enthusiasm for the updates, however I must ask again that I not be pestered about the release as if the rosters do become too much of a chore, I’m going to have stop doing them. I’ll try to keep you all posted on the status of the updates in the coming weeks, as I get closer to a release.

I'm continuing my work on the rosters, however here are two standalone releases that will also be included in the rosters once they're out: an updated NBA team logos bootup screen with the new Charlotte Bobcats and Brooklyn Nets logos, and updated in-game logos for the Charlotte Bobcats. I released the Brooklyn Nets logo update a few months back, please see the first post in the thread for the link.

Rosters are still a work in progress, but here's another small update in the meantime: a new Real Staff update, which as the name implies updates your Dynasty Mode staff with real assistants, trainers and scouts.

I may or may not make a main page post about this, but just to give everyone an update: at this point, everyone who needs to be in the rosters has been added and it's just a matter of updating the lineups as of the day before the update goes live. All-Star and Rising Stars Challenge rosters have also been updated. Now it's just a matter of updating some ratings and salaries, getting all the art into place, polishing a few things up and putting it all together, then doing the conversions for 2005-07. In other words, right now we're on track for a release by the end of this week.

A HUGE thanks to everyone who has helped out with the art so far. It's very much appreciated, the rosters are obviously coming out much later than I intended or would've liked, but your fantastic work and support has encouraged me to get it done. I still don't know whether I'll be continuing the rosters beyond this season - we'll cross that bridge in a few months time and I'll see what arrangements can be made depending on what I decide - but in the meantime, with your contributions, I'm hoping to deliver a great roster that proves to be worth the wait.

NOTE: I need to re-pack the update as I left out Mike Krzyzewski’s face. In the meantime, download this pack and extract the files to your sgsm folder.

Thanks again to everyone for their patience, as well as all the talented patchers who made contributions. There will be a couple more updates for this season (the rosters are outdated by a few days at this point due to delays caused by conversions); as far as updates next season are concerned I'm still undecided, and can't make any promises, but I'll keep mulling it over and make arrangements as necessary.

In any case, please enjoy the new rosters! I hope they'll be worth the wait.

I'd recommend a fresh install, just to be sure there aren't any loose files in sgsm causing any issues.

jmoney777 wrote:Yo Andrew this is pretty sweet man, we've been waiting for this. Might want to create a different thread for the newbies stopping by the boards, I love it though.

Thanks, appreciate the support. There's no real reason to create a new thread though; this one is prominent, the links are in the first post as well as my previous one and it's where I release all my stuff. I used to create separate threads for the roster releases but it's overkill these days, especially when having a single release thread is the norm.

Fixed the issue. For some reason, the fresh install didnt get rid of old "hidden" viv and fsh files i had in the LIVE 06 folder(s) from editing stuff with DOLFFIN. Now it's good to go, though, and I've already started a dynasty with my beloved Wolves! Thanks again, Drew!

ps: Pek's CF doesn't have his great beard, btw. might wanna fix that in future updates

c0nr4d wrote:Fixed the issue. For some reason, the fresh install didnt get rid of old "hidden" viv and fsh files i had in the LIVE 06 folder(s) from editing stuff with DOLFFIN. Now it's good to go, though, and I've already started a dynasty with my beloved Wolves! Thanks again, Drew!

ps: Pek's CF doesn't have his great beard, btw. might wanna fix that in future updates

Good to hear. S_Brat is working on some team face update packs at the moment, so as soon as I have a more up to date face for Pekovic, I'll be sure to include it.

Hiiipower wrote:Does my court's work with the updated rosters?

Dc311's conversions of them do; those are the ones that are included in the update.

Thanks Andrew and to everyone who contributes to the NBA Live Roster Project! To keep this going means a lot to many of us! I only play NBA Live 06 once the Playoffs roll around and I always look forward to the Update!

A few questions, probably address elsewhere and I apologize if it has. 1) Is OKC's commentary supposed to say "Seattle?"2) Are there some star players, like Russell Westbrook, that do not have their name announced?

Not a complaint by any means, I just want to make sure I'm doing everything correctly.

1. Yes. There's no way to change that.2. The rosters do include some updated speech files so most players who were in the league by 2008/2009 should have their names called, but I can't remember if everyone is accounted for. The person who made the speech updates isn't around anymore.

I downloaded the roster update pack.That's great, added to Live 06 (with 05 imho best Live game on PC talking about gameplay, plus a better graphics) sounds so good.I notice one little thing. In the update for those two games Lakers court doesn't have the new look with symbol surrounded by stars and other little changes introducted last summer.Only in 08 update court is in real life current style.Previous two games have still the old Lakers livery @Staples.By the way, I'm new here and I can't figure what u have been able to do every time I play these games with current roster installed.Such an impossible thing to my eyes, I can say only...wow.

"Well, you know what...what we human beings want to do always on this planet is to climb mountains in and sometimes I think we forget that we have to come down from the mountain too before we are climbing the next I want" Falco classy swag answering to Dirl Clark.

"Well, you know what...what we human beings want to do always on this planet is to climb mountains in and sometimes I think we forget that we have to come down from the mountain too before we are climbing the next I want" Falco classy swag answering to Dirl Clark.

hi there, im just a newbie so here it goes, i just installed a fresh NBA Live 06 in my PC and then installed your Roster Update, once im on the game i loaded the 1213Uninjured then i played 1on1 there seems to be a problem on they're faces, they all look the same and the hair like James Harden doesnt have his Mohawk and Kawhi Leonard doesnt have his cornrows, is there a way to fix it? Thanks in Advance

For the record, there's no need to post here and PM me the same question. One or the other is sufficient.

Because I've had to use face updates from NBA Live 07/08 in the 2005 and 06 rosters, I don't always have proper hair shape files for the latter games, so a few faces won't look quite right. There's nothing I can do about that unless I'm provided with an appropriate face and hair update, I just have to make do with what I've got.

Haven't been here in a long time, but i'm glad that Andrew is still doing a fantastic job. This was one of my favorite places and it still is. Glad to see that the rosters are still up to date, i will certainly use them.